Plan of the redoubt Purmerend

Title Leupe: Plan en defensie van de redout Purmerent.

In the general defence plan for the colony of Surinam designed at the outbreak of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in 1781 by Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Wollant on the orders of Governor Texier, the former proposed the complete reconstruction of badly designed and dilapidated Purmerend. His fine specific plan for this purpose, in cipher, is shown here. The legend in cipher on the map is as follows: no. 1. 1 piece 24-pound iron ordnance , 2 pieces 18-pound iron, completely useless, 2 pieces 6-pound iron; no. 2. 3 pieces 18-pound iron, damaged, 1 6-pound iron; no. 3. 2 pieces 3-pound iron; a. officers’ quarters; b. quarters other ranks; c. small building for ditto; d. barracks for the garrison, now occupied by pacified ‘Bosnegers’ (Marrons); e. small gunpowder and ammunition magazines on the batteries; f. cisterns; g. sluice; h. landing place; k. guardhouse; i. extended night picket posts.

North is upper left.

Scale-bars of 50 Rods of 12 Rhineland feet = [approximately 1 : 1,900] / [profile] 15 Rods of 12 Rhineland feet = [approximately 1 : 395].